•Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle. The federal government will conduct a thorough investigation into Wednesday’s accidental bombing that killed 10 people in the Gidan Bisa and Runtuwa villages of Silame Local Government Area. This was disclosed in a statement yesterday by the Press Secretary to Sokoto State Governor, Ahmad Aliyu....
•NAF airstrike A Northern advocacy group, Northern Star Initiative has decried the aerial bombing of Gidan Bida and Runtawa communities in Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto that led to the death of at least ten innocent civilians and the destruction of property. This was contained in a statement issued to newsmen in Kaduna today […...
•NAF airstrike A security expert, Kingsley Uzoma, says there is a need for a holistic investigation to exactly identify those that lost their lives during a military airstrike in Sokoto State yesterday. The Sokoto State Government claimed that a fighter jet mistakenly bombed two communities in Silame Local Government Area of the state, killing...
•NAF airstrike Hours after the tragic airstrike in Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto State, a survivor has recounted the harrowing experience of watching her family perish in the ensuing inferno. In an interview with BBC Hausa, the distraught woman, who requested anonymity, described how her father, mother, and four younger siblings were ...
A fighter jet mistakenly bombed two communities in Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto State in the early hours yesterday. The jet, targeting Lakurawa jihadists in the Surame forest, dropped bombs on assemblies of innocent villagers in Gidan Bisa, Gitta Rana, and Runtuwa villages of Silame Ward in Silame Local Government Area. According to ...
A fighter jet targeting terrorists in Lakurawa mistakenly bombed two peaceful communities in Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto State today, leaving many feared dead and several others injured. The affected villages, Gidan Sama and Rumtuwa, were hit around 7 am, according to local accounts. The chairman of Silame LGA, Alhaji Abubakar Muham...
•Terrorists A prominent Islamic cleric in Sokoto State, Sheikh Abdulbasit Silame, has revealed how the Lakurawa terrorists group deceived the people of Sokoto and Kebbi into believing they are in the two states to rescue them from bandits, kidnappers and cattle rustlers who have been terrorising the communities in the last one decade. Sheikh S...
•Terrorists Unknown to many, the new terrorist group, Lakurawa, the army raised the alarm about, last week, did not just spring up recently. As far back as 2018, it was discovered that the group had commenced operations in Gongono Forest, Tangaza Local Government Area, reports Sunday Vanguard. This is the story: On December 16, 2018, […...
Sokoto State Government has raised the alarm over the emergence of another terrorist group in the state, identified as LAKURAWAS. The State deputy governor, Idris Gobir, made this known while receiving participants of Course 33 of the National Defence College, Abuja, who were on a study tour in the state, reports Vanguard. Gobir said the [&hel...
•A flooded area The United Nation’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) says it has released US$5 million to scale up the flood response and address critical needs in three of the most flood affected states in Nigeria – Borno and Bauchi in the North-East, and Sokoto in the North-West. CERF made the announcement in a […]
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